world war
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3.2
- noun
- /wɜrld wɔr/
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guerra mundial
- If there is another World War, the civilization may go under.
- World War II
- World War I
- post-World War
And it could end in World War Three and nuclear weapons.
- And it could end in World War Three and nuclear weapons.
- You know, a kid could start World War Three by accident.
- My grandfather went into World War One on a horse, on a horse.
- That balloons into a World War three scenario.
- Are we near a, a third World War?
- We think this is probably pre First World War.
- We have been able to prevent any third World War.
- So we came within a hair's breadth of World War Three.
- This was a World War, not merely a European one as some may think.
- He died soon after the World War.
- But then he blinks and he really pulled back from World War Three.
- Britain has won two world wars and both times they lost.
- He like many World War Two people.
Examples
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And so we have, you know, World War One and World War Two.
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You were a nurse in World War II.
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And it could end in World War Three and nuclear weapons.
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You know, a kid could start World War Three by accident.
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I was born in the Second World War.
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Then came two world wars that changed many lives, and especially his.
Academic text (2011) -
The massive changes in the global economy since World War II have had overwhelmingly positive effects.
Academic text (2011) -
His mother and stepfather had gone to California during World War II in search of work.
Fiction book (1990) -
Listen, men and women died in the world wars against fascism and racism.
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The international community must learn from the devastation of World War I and World War II.
Antonyms
How Global
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a war involving most of the world's major nations' is directly derivable from combining 'world' (the globe or global population) with 'war' (armed conflict). This noun-noun composition is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The noun world war comes from the idea of a war that reaches across the whole world, like battles on many continents at the same time. That's why it means 'a war involving most of the world's major nations'.